Grotesque Purgatory

Grotesque Purgatory
Author: Henry W. Sullivan
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271041048

Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote is a diptych, the first part of which was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. Focusing almost entirely on the novel's second part, Henry W. Sullivan is the first critic to offer a systematic account of Don Quixote's passage from madness to sanity. Sullivan argues that Part II of the novel is a salvation epic, within which the Cave of Montesinos episode is the single most important pivot in the Knight's confrontation with his own emotional difficulties. In this carefully researched and challenging study, Sullivan shows that chapters 22-24 (the Cave of Montesinos episode) represent an entrance into Purgatory, while chapter 55 is the exit from this realm. The Knight and his Squire are made to suffer excruciating torments in the chapters in between, experiencing a Purgatory in this life. This original reading of the book is coupled with an explanation that this Purgatory is &"grotesque&" since Don Quixote's and Sancho's sins are venial and can thus be cleansed by theological means against a background of comedy. By combining these two aspects, Sullivan exposes both the deeply agonizing and the comic aspects of the text. In addition, the combination of theological interpretation and Lacanian analysis to show Don Quixote's salvation/cure in this life results in a truly comprehensive vision of the Knight's progress. Sullivan also summarizes, in five different streams of critical tradition, the accumulated reception history of the Cave of Montesinos incident, drawing on scholarly writings from the nineteenth century to the present.

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Author: Alexander Samuel Wilkinson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 2646
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004301135

Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literature, history and culture of the Iberian Peninsula in the early modern age. This set supplements Iberian Books, which logs the Iberian print production up to 1601. Los dos volúmenes de Iberian Books II & III ofrecen un registro pionero de todos los impresos publicados en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo, o en español o portugués en otros lugares, entre 1601 y 1650. A partir del trabajo realizado en bibliotecas, la revisión de bibliografías especializadas y de catálogos de casas de subastas, Iberian Books recoge 45.000 impresos conservados en 215.000 ejemplares preservados en 1.800 colecciones de todo el mundo. Estos volúmenes ofrecen una herramienta de investigación de gran utilidad para investigadores, bibliotecarios, libreros y coleccionistas. Los dos volúmenes resultarán de enorme valor a todo aquel investigador interesado en la literatura, la historia y la cultura de la Península Ibérica de la Edad Moderna.

The Souls of Purgatory

The Souls of Purgatory
Author: Ursula de Jesús
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826328281

This translation of part of the diary of a 17th century Peruvian mystic includes the convent life of slaves and former slaves and baroque Catholic spiritual experiences from the perspective of a woman of color.

The Inner Life of Catholic Reform

The Inner Life of Catholic Reform
Author: Ulrich L. Lehner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2022
Genre: Church renewal
ISBN: 0197620604

"While studies abound about Catholic Reform and its institutional or social history, its spiritual motives and practices, what one could call its "inner life," have been widely neglected. This book examines how these spiritual ideas and practices shaped the Catholic Reform and Catholic view of the world and led to a diverse but peculiarly theological imagination, a new outlook on the self and the world, and influenced human behaviors and sentiments. It tells the story of how the idea of the "inner reform of the soul" shaped a world religion. The historicization of these religious practices and beliefs makes this book also highly accessible to historians and anthropologists. It relies on a plethora of published and unpublished sources, and a wide field of secondary literature. Although the emphasis is on Europe, this book takes a global perspective by integrating material from Africa, America and Asia as it was in this era that Catholicism became a "world religion.""--

Almas Sedientas

Almas Sedientas
Author: Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg
Publisher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0895559870

Almas hambrientas: cuenta variadas historias, y muchos otros relatos, verificados por la iglesia, sobre visitas en la tierra de almas del purgatorio. Estas historias vienen acompanadas con imagenes del "museo del purgatorio" en Roma, el cual contiene reliquias sobre estos encuentros, incluyendo numerosas evidencias, tales como: huellas de manos quemadas en ropa, libros y diferentes marcas de quemaduras que no pueden ser explicadas ni por medios naturales, ni pueden ser duplicadas por medios artificiales. Fascinante! Despues de una semana de escuchar ruidos fantasmales, un hombre es visitado por el espiritu de su madre, fallecida hace tres decadas. Ella le reprocha la vida inmoral que ha llevado, y le pide que ofrezca misas en su nombre; Inmediatamente ella pone su mano en la manga de su camisa, dejandole una quemadura imborrable. Despues de esto ella se va... Un ministro Luterano que no cree en el purgatorio, es sorprendido, en su pequena iglesia en Alemania, por repetidas visitas de demonios buscando oracion, consuelo y refugio. La compasion que sintio por estos pobres espiritus, hace que supere su escepticismo, preguntandose que clase de almas pueden pertenecer a Cristo y seguir sufriendo...